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VIENNA -- Romania's former president Ion Iliescu commented in an interview published Wednesday by the Vienna daily Die Presse on consequences of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia felt by his country.
Iliescu said that in talks with NATO and U.S. officials held before as well as during the alliance's March 24-June 10 bombing of Yugoslavia he had conveyed his concern about and assessment that the military intervention would have negative effects.
He said that it had turned out that the intervention had failed to reach its goal, explaining that the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province had deteriorated rather than improved and that stability in the region had become even more fragile.
He pointed to traditionally good relations between Romania and Yugoslavia, saying that his country had sustained a loss of about 1 billion U.S. dollars due to the fact that NATO's destruction of Danube bridges in Yugoslavia had made the navigation along the river through the country impossible.